Beatrix Lestrange is a "Fucking Whore".

BE FOREWARNED: SOME HARRY POTTER SPOILERS AHEAD!

Went and saw Harry Potter 5 last night on one of the big Michigan Ave. screen. I'm glad I did. It's a big, big movie. And it needs the screen size to get all of that magic across.

I liked it. A lot. It was EXACTLY what I wanted. Which was, "More of the same Harry Potter goodness, with the same cast, some new characters and mind-blowing special effects." Which is exactly what I got.

Sentient, Hidden Practice Rooms. Indoor fireworks. Giants. Centaurs and a wonderfully realized full-on Wizard Battle at the very end that really delivers. (As much as I liked the fire snake, I liked the ball of water, more!)

(FULL DISCLOSURE: I haven't read any of the books. I am waiting until the movies are done and then I'll work my way through them.)

It was a pretty full house, too. Not a whole lot of kids. And Not a whole lot of solo adults either. Lots of couples, though. Apparently, the Potter movies are good "date material".

If you're dating a nerd.

For example, sitting to my right was a nice, normal, quiet guy. He was reading a book, in the dim light, before the movie began. Ten minutes after we both sat down, a pretty girl came in, hugged him and they sat together, to watch the movie. Before the film started, they quietly chatted in their very American dialects.

Imagine my surprise and amusement, when during the movie, as Beatrix Lestrange kills a very important character, this same guy quickly and angrily spits out, "You fucking whooooore!" in a very crisp British dialect. A dialect that he didn't evidence before the movie began.

There was no surprise in his voice, just plain, festering hatred. And at the critical moment, when Lestrange does the thing that she does, he couldn't contain himself and he cursed her. At a fictional character. A person who wasn't even there, because they don't exist, at all.

I thought that was sort of interesting. I didn't have that emotionally attached to any character in the film. So, I can't imagine getting that worked up. But this guy did and he let fly with a slur in a dialect that he's picked up from the movie. I guess you could say that he got his money's worth.

See you at the movies,
Mr.B